Through programs like our North Star Black Cooperative Fellowship and the Open Road Fund, Nexus Community Partners is reimagining Black wealth. Building Black wealth means healing from over five centuries of labor and livelihood stolen from us on this stolen land. It’s owning what we produce and building and inventing for our families and community.
Together, we are building Community Wealth for a just and liberated future. Over the last 20 years, Nexus has worked to usher out the rigged rules, attitudes, and practices that concentrate wealth and power in fewer and whiter hands. For folks who have been intentionally shut out of mainstream economies, cooperatives present a tried-and-true alternative.
When we founded Nexus Community Partners 20 years ago, we did something simple yet powerful—we turned to community to reclaim our strength and to reimagine what power looks like when it is rooted in truth and relationships. We are unique because of how we’re positioned and how we work: We take the long view, and
Life moves fast. Let’s take time to reflect and appreciate where we have been! From cohorts to conferences, we worked together to build engaged and powerful communities of color this year. In 2024, we… Launched ROOT (Reclaiming Our Own Time) All people deserve joyful and abundant lives filled with the rest that our bodies, minds,
By the end of 2024, the Open Road Fund will have invested $9,950,000 in Black-wealth gifts, impacting 199 individuals and families across Minnesota, North Dakota, and South Dakota. Saying YES to 199 folks is an honor! We are deeply encouraged by the tremendous impact this resource is having on these communities and the positive transformations
Dear Community, Our vision is for each and every person to flourish in a joyful and abundant life. All the creative and innovative work we do reflects the brilliance gifted to us by our people—our staff, fellows, partners, and supporters like you. To help us usher in nourishing ways of living, owning, and working, our
In October, the City of Saint Paul, Nexus Community Partners, Project Equity, and Living Cities convened local leaders from cooperatives, government, nonprofits, and philanthropy, alongside national partners, for the Saint Paul Shared Ownership Equity Summit. The day was filled with panels, networking, a workshop, and a rousing conversation between Mayor Melvin Carter and Living Cities’
Our eighth North Star cohort is in full swing! The 2024-25 North Star Black Cooperative Fellowship is participating in a few hybrid sessions this fall and spring and gathering virtually for the remaining sessions. Our 24 fellows represent 10 cooperatives, with missions focused on housing, community wealth building, solidarity and connection, life skills, empowerment, art, healing,
You’re invited to our Heal the Healers Convening, Feb. 27 – March 1! This pivotal, three-day event will be a transformative sanctuary of rest, reflection, and rejuvenation amidst workshops on holistic care and professional growth. As an act of revolution and movement building, attendees will immerse themselves in sessions advocating the necessity of self-care, from
Applications for the Boards & Commissions Leadership Institute (BCLI) are open now through Jan. 20! We are excited to recruit our next cohort of equity champions who want to be effective members on boards, committees, commissions and task forces at all levels of government. Apply and learn how to get a seat on a decision-making
Nexus (noun): a connection or series of connections linking two or more things. Dear Community, Nexus has turned 20! In 2004, we created Payne-Lake Community Partners to build engaged and powerful communities of color, connect BIPOC communities to economic and political power, and to usher in a world where each and every person can flourish